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Therapeutic Boarding School and Ranch for Boys with Private Rooms and Adventure-Based Therapy

Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch is a Christian therapeutic boarding school dedicated to helping troubled boys get a new start in life. Boys ages 14-17 come to our therapeutic school and ranch in Northwest Arkansas from across the United States. We help at-risk boys who struggle with behavioral issues such as: anger, defiance, attention deficit, drug or alcohol abuse, trouble with the law, dangerous activities, or disrespect for authority. Our therapeutic program offers hope and an opportunity for a new and more productive future.

Our ranch for boys was the very first Teen Challenge therapeutic boarding school for teenage boys. We are the only program that provides private bedrooms for the boys. We have been helping boys who are struggling and their families for the past 40 years, yet we continue to find innovative new ways to help these boys. Our energetic counselors and caring staff encourage boys to apply faith-based solutions to life’s problems, and we actively teach that a personal relationship with God is the primary means and source of power to change. We endeavor to help troubled boys become mentally sound, academically proficient, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well, and spiritually alive. Call us to learn more.

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About Our Adventure Ranch Director

Darren Reynolds (pictured with his wife Mary) has worked with youth since 1990 and became the Executive Director of Teen Challenge Boys Ranch in 1996. He is a graduate of Central Bible College and has earned a Master’s Degree in counseling from Liberty University. He is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and was officially recognized as a U.S. Home Missionary in 1998. Since coming to Teen Challenge, he has helped to coordinate training in adolescent ministry for the Teen Challenge national conferences and has served as an accreditation reviewer for the national organization. Darren and his wife Mary have been married since 1989. They have three children, Trina, Crystal, and Caleb.